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Incidents: prior restraint in Asia, stage: silence

Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.

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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
June 2010	Israel: a court bars any mention of the 'Prisoner X' case	Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180)	Prior restraint	Benjamin Netanyahu	Unknown (1 June 2010)
18 September 1988	Burma's new military government tightens pre-publication press controls after seizing power	Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180)	Prior restraint	Saw Maung	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
26 June 1975	India imposes pre-press controls on every newspaper during the 1975 Emergency	India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180)	Prior restraint	Indira Gandhi	Reversed (21 March 1977)
21 September 1972	Philippines President Marcos closes every major news outlet under martial law	Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Ferdinand Marcos	Reversed (25 February 1986)
1948	Israel retains a British-era law giving the military the power to review and restrict the press	Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180)	Prior restraint	David Ben-Gurion	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
July 1937	Japan: government requires clearance to publish war news under the Newspaper Law, 1937	Japan (RSF rank: not recorded)	Prior restraint	Fumimaro Konoe	Sustained

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